Disorganised attachment and trauma | Dr Valerie Sinason

Dr Valerie Sinason describes how disorganised attachment and trauma are necessary prerequisites for dissociative identity disorder (DID).
Taken from our "The Truth about Trauma and Dissociation; Part I
The adult child in therapy" talk on demand
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In this webinar she will describe what she has learnt about hearing, accepting and responding to their accounts. She will take us through the key concepts of trauma and dissociation as they relate to those who have experienced harm or abuse in childhood and offering clinical expertise on therapeutically empowering responses.
Linking extreme childhood adversities in many forms, this seminar is a relational guide to trauma which builds confidence and skill in the therapist, helping us to learn what we need to be able to hear without a loss of feelings.
Speaker Bio
Dr Valerie Sinason is a poet, writer, child psychotherapist, and adult psychoanalyst. A member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists and of the British Psychoanalytical Society, she helped to pioneer the field of disability psychotherapy and served as founding President of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability. She is also the founder of the Clinic for Dissociative Studies in London and has worked extensively with severely traumatised individuals suffering from dissociative identity disorder. Previously, Dr Sinason worked as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, the Portman Clinic, the Anna Freud Centre, and St. George’s Hospital Medical School in the University of London.
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[@Kiwi403]

Another excellent utube by Valerie Sinason. We need more!

[@scottba]

Thank you. The last four minutes were especially interesting.

[@scottba]

Rather than stating that this is a safe space, one might initiate a discussion about what makes or what might make a space safe or feel safe.

[@jojojo8835]

13:50 oh thank god someone’s been made aware of that. But it’s only the tip of a much more comprehensive iceberg. If you’ve grown up in an environment where there was absolutely nobody safe to be with, being in a room with any other person is never going to feel safe. And even being alone isn’t going to feel much safer because someone could walk in or phone or whatever something. I’ve never met a therapist who could fully comprehend that complete absolute absence of safety. At some point they will always blunder into expecting you to feel safe without dissociating.